Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Peracarida > Order Amphipoda > Suborder Senticaudata > Infraorder Gammarida > Parvorder Crangonyctidira > Superfamily Crangonyctoidea

Crangonyctidae Bousfield, 1973

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Crangonyx Spence Bate, 1859

Literature

original description	Bousfield, E. L. (1973). Shallow-water gammaridean Amphipoda of New England. Cornell University Press, Ithaca. 312 pp.
additional source	Bousfield, E. L. (1982). Amphipoda. Synopsis and classification of living organisms. McGraw-Hill Book Company, New-York. 254-294.
additional source	Väinölä, R., Witt, J.D.S., Grabowski, M., Bradbury, J.H., Jazdzewski, K., Sket, B. (2008). Global diversity of amphipods (Amphipoda; Crustacea) in freshwater. In: Balian E et al.(eds) Freshwater animal diversity assessment. Hydrobiologia. 595: 241-255.
additional source	Englisch, U.; Coleman, C.O.; Wagele, J.W. (2003). First observations on the phylogeny of the families Gammaridae, Crangonyctidae, Melitidae, Niphargidae, Megaluropidae and Oedicerotidae (Amphipoda, Crustacea), using small subunit rDNA gene sequences. Journal of Natural History. 37(20): 2461-2486.
additional source	Copilaş-Ciocianu, D., Sidorov, D. & Gontcharov, A. (2019). Adrift across tectonic plates: Molecular phylogenetics supports the ancient Laurasian origin of old limnic crangonyctid amphipods. Organisms, Diversity & Evolution. 19: 191-207.
additional source	Kornobis, E.; Pálsson, S.; Sidorov, D. A.; Holsinger, J. R.; Kristjánsson, B. K. (2011). Molecular taxonomy and phylogenetic affinities of two groundwater amphipods, Crangonyx islandicus and Crymostygius thingvallensis, endemic to Iceland. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 58(3): 527-539.
redescription	Holsinger J.R. (1977). A review of the systematics of the holarctic amphipod family Crangonyctidae. Crustaceana, suppl. 4, 244-281; 15 figs.;.
redescription	Lowry, J. K.; Myers, A. A. (2013). A Phylogeny and Classification of the Senticaudata subord. nov. (Crustacea: Amphipoda). Zootaxa. 3610(1): 1-80.
status source	Bousfield, E. L. (1977). A new look at the systematics of Gammaroidean Amphipods of the World. Crustaceana supplement. 4: 282-316.
taxonomy source	Bousfield E.L. & Holsinger J.R. (1989). A new crangonyctid amphipod crustacean from hypogean fresh waters of Oregon. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 67, 963-968.
taxonomy source	Zhang, J.; Holsinger, J. R. (2003). Systematics of the freshwater amphipod genus Crangonyx (Crangonyctidae) in North America. Virginia Museum of Natural History, Memoir. 6, 274 pp.

Genbank

Citation

Horton, T.; Lowry, J.; De Broyer, C.; Bellan-Santini, D.; Copilas-Ciocianu, D.; Corbari, L.; Costello, M.J.; Daneliya, M.; Dauvin, J.-C.; Fišer, C.; Gasca, R.; Grabowski, M.; Guerra-García, J.M.; Hendrycks, E.; Hughes, L.; Jaume, D.; Jazdzewski, K.; Kim, Y.-H.; King, R.; Krapp-Schickel, T.; LeCroy, S.; Lörz, A.-N.; Mamos, T.; Senna, A.R.; Serejo, C.; Souza-Filho, J.F.; Tandberg, A.H.; Thomas, J.D.; Thurston, M.; Vader, W.; Väinölä, R.; Valls Domedel, G.; Vonk, R.; White, K.; Zeidler, W. (2025). World Amphipoda Database. Crangonyctidae Bousfield, 1973. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:430454

Dr. Geoffrey Boxshall. Crangonyctidae Bousfield, 1973. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/498c8547-70a7-4baa-8a28-5cc0a4582d20